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Basque
Suffix
-kor
- inclined, prone
Usage notes
Usually attached to the short form of verbs.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “-kor” in Labayru Hiztegia
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-kor
- (temporal suffix) at, at the time of
- az (“that”) + -kor → akkor (“then”)
- karácsony (“Christmas”) + -kor → karácsonykor (“at Christmas”)
- leszállás (“alighting”) + -kor → leszálláskor (“on alighting”)
- jó (“good”) + -kor → jókor (“at the right time”)
- 1 óra (“1 o’clock”) → 1 órakor (“at 1 o’clock”)
- 1 → 1-kor (“at 1 ”)
- negyed egy (“12:15”, literally “quarter one”) → negyed egykor (“at 12:15”)
- fél egy (“12:30”, literally “half one”) → fél egykor (“at 12:30”)
- háromnegyed egy (“12:45”, literally “three-quarters one”) → háromnegyed egykor (“at 12:45”)
Usage notes
- It has no harmonic variants. It is used with both back- and front-vowel words.
- It can be used only with nouns related to time, as well as numerals expressing hours, minutes, and seconds. Some nouns take other suffixes:
| Adverbs of temporal nouns (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time)
|
no suffix (the noun
can act as an adverb) |
nappal (“daytime”), reggel (“early morning”), délelőtt (“late morning”), délután (“afternoon”), este (“evening”), éjjel / éjszaka (“night”), and vasárnap (“Sunday”)
|
| -kor (“at”) |
pirkadat / virradat (“dawn”), napkelte (“sunrise”), napnyugta (“sunset”), alkonyat (“dusk”), szürkület (“twilight”), éjfél (“midnight”), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (“Easter”) etc.)
|
| -ban/-ben (“in”) |
dél (“noon”), hajnal (“daybreak”), names of months (január–december) and hónap (“month”), évszak (“season”), év (“year”) and specific years, évtized (“decade”) and longer periods
|
| -n/-on/-en/-ön (“on”) |
days of the week (hétfő–szombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (“1st”), másodika (“2nd”) etc.), nap (“day”), hét (“week”), nyár (“summer”), and tél (“winter”)
|
| -val/-vel (“with”, assimilated: -szal/-szel) |
tavasz (“spring”), ősz (“autumn, fall”)
|
Derived terms
(These are not to be confused with compound noun lemmas formed with kor (“age, period, era, epoch, time”).)
See also